Smart Cloud System for Forensic Thermal Image Enhancement Using Local and Global Logarithmic Transform Histogram Matching
Viacheslav Voronin, Evgeny A. Semenishchev, Франц Владимир Александрович, Sos С. Agaian · 2018
Digital images used in the investigation of a crime often undergo several concurrent enhancement operations for improved automated analysis. The challenges are related to the big size of data and complexity of the forensic image processing. Our purpose is providing a smart cloud system to image processing for PC and Smartphones with limited computation complexity. This paper presents a new thermal image enhancement algorithm based on combined local and global image processing in the frequency domain. The presented approach uses the fact that the relationship between stimulus and perception is logarithmic. The basic idea is to apply logarithmic transform histogram matching with spatial equalization approach on different image blocks. The resulting image is a weighted mean of all processing blocks. The weights for every local and global enhanced image driven through optimization of measure of enhancement (EME). Some presented experimental results illustrate the performance of the proposed cloud system on real thermal images in comparison with the traditional methods.